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Civilization Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
- A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
- To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to…
- I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first…
- Revolution is the larva of civilization.
- Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the…
- Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
- We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and…
- The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
- That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in the…
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